Art by Anmei Little. Although alpacas are known for their soft, warm fleece, they may soon be known for their antibodies. The alpaca antibody Ty1
During a sick call or an annual check-up, one of the first measurements collected by the doctor is the patient’s body temperature. Courtesy of Roy
Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons In the last century, American life expectancy has more than doubled from forty-seven years in 1900 to seventy-eight in 2019.
You share 99.9 percent of your genetic material with the person sitting next to you. This genetic material, or DNA, encodes the proteins your body
In the average adult human, half a pound of proteins is turned over daily–destroyed and rebuilt from scratch. Among the many biological processes that occupy
Everyone generates cancerous cells. The human body is made up of more than a hundred million cells that may mutate during the process of division